As some of you know, I have not been around much in the forum past few days but I kept watching the episodes.
Posting this after a lot of contemplation. People who are not up for criticism of actors, please skip. It is a long pending ranting post, about which I have ranted quite a few times but in a subtle way since I had given benefit of doubt. I had stopped giving them that even that in the recent past when things have become quite prominent. I am sure each one of us have different views about different things and I expect that this view of mine is looked at as my views and be respected. I feel this way and I have no comments or anything to say if others feel different about it. This is a forum and I think I can state my views without inhibition and I am doing it after a long long time trying to respect others sentiments but this time I would want to post my views, but please do remember that it is not hurt with any intention to hurt anyone’s sentiments but to call out on whatever is going wrong, to raise issues on the cast.
Also, I am no one’s fan. People who know me know that I had started to watch it for Sairat and I have continued to watch the show for the story of Sairat and Neilshas chemistry. I have been left clueless many a times with the so called social distancing scenes between the leads. I don’t understand in the stage that Sairat are, they still don’t show proper Sairat scenes.
Pulkit and Ajinkya have been much closer to Sai than Virat and Virat would be close to Pakhi circling her around while confronting her about why she sent Ajinkya to room. Virat will always only maintain distance with Sai? Why? I have been able to notice that the actor has not been comfortable doing any close scene with Ayesha and why should that be the case? Looks very unprofessional. I have supported him and said that as long as onscreen content is fine, I am happy. I have defended him supporting his fiance long before when people were bashing them when they used to take pics in their character costumes or when he used to support his fiance saying any fiance would do. I have always respected their personal life, have not even had issues watching their segment. I might be one of the few who would have watched the offscreen couple’s segments and that’s because they were like other actors for me. But I wouldn’t tolerate any kind of compromise in onscreen part. Many of us are watching it as a story of Sairat, their journey. It has become very very wierd that the actor always maintains distance from his costar or when body double is used in scenes where he is close to Sai. I really wonder how does the ph and the director accommodating so much. Just because they are friends, they are compromising so much? There are a lot of shows to watch romantic content but I am here for Neil and Ayesha and Sairat story. Why can’t they give us decent scenes? It has become very prominent in the recent past that Neil cannot even get close to Ayesha and act. The copy paste works in everything but just not in Sairat scenes. They will be cut short to a few seconds. Absolutely unprofessional I would say. If he is not willing to get that close with his costar and act, I don’t know what to say. Just a few hugs wouldn’t show anything. This is ridiculous. They always have a workaround for everything so that they don’t have to show the couple acting close. I am not here to look at their romance alone but when the ML is visibly uncomfortable, maintaining distance in all his scenes with his FL but not with the antagonist of the show, I can’t help but raise this as an issue, call out on the actor, the director and the ph. Do they think we can’t see all these? If not for all, I
Am sure many can see. I know many have accepted that they are not going to show proper Sairat scenes. They too know but just don’t think it as an issue or some don’t even raise it as an issue. I won’t blame the director alone. How do I perceive the fact that Sai can act close with Ajinkya but there will be a visible distance between Virat and Sai almost always. If the same scene of Ajinkya and Sai had to be enacted by Neil, he would have sat with Sai like how he was when he and applied hand aid in her forehead, when he held her hands in the hospital. The same hospital scene if it was between Sai and Ajinkya, if Ajinkya was helping her as a friend wouldn’t have maintained social distancing. None of these are part of the story, the actor is visibly not comfortable. We have had enough of Sairat scenes to understand this.
I think there is honeymoon promo being shot, it is the trip where they will find Sairat. Mark it guys, the scenes will be nowhere like how it was in KD. If Virat Pakhi scenes can be shot that way, why not Virat Sai who are husband and wife as per the story?
I have enjoyed Neil’s expressions, his acting skills and was very happy with him. I would still be able to enjoy it but that doesn’t mean that I can’t express my displeasure about the actor. One can appreciate and actors and criticise them too.
The story can be quite upsetting but when I see someone being this unprofessional, it is an even more bigger put off.
High time that the actor and the directors change their ways and attitude. Whether we get scenes as in other shows or not doesn’t matter to me, what matters is that onscreen content are getting repeatedly affected, especially the actor who clearly isn’t willing to act in a few shots or scenes.
Once again, this is me ranting unhappy with the actor for whom I started to watch the show based on the promo.
All I want is for social distancing scenes to stop. It has become too evident now and it is very weird and annoying.
Kudos for being brave enough to put into words what most of us have been feeling to a certain extent. I can't exactly pin-point on what's gone wrong but the production value has dropped down significantly post Mahashivratri sequence, especially in execution of Sairat scenes. From what I've heard, it was sometime during then the director was replaced who's now a part of the Mehendi show. So that could've had an impact on the excution but to this extent, it's extremely hard to believe. The contrast is so evident between the initial 100 episodes and the episodes post that, is something I realised today earlier in the day while I was watching Sairat's Ladakh confrontation, and I could literally feel sparks shooting off of each other, their chemistry was that electric. But now, with lack of proper cinematography and leads standing almost a feet away and not even being in the same frame most of the times, even the most significant sequence looks so fake, almost forced. Watching old episodes make you feel that they had more physical attraction during the initial days of their marriage than now. Earlier we used to get some really beautiful scenes with meaningful conversations but now it's all about some nok-jhonk or they're having MU's followed by full blown confrontations with once in a blue moon close proximity scenes like that ladoo sequence. It's as if the entire production team from CVs and writers, to cinematography and direction, to screenplay & editing have become extremely lazy and incompetent.
As far as ML is concerned, I'd always thought that people were going over board when they used to drag him earlier for his lack of interest in his onscreen jodi. But with the recent consistent downhill, I'd hate to begin assuming that it's the actor here who is not comfortable enough to shoot with his FL w/o any hesitation in the presence of his fiancée because that seems one of the most logical explanation at this point. Ever since his real life equation has come to forefront I've seen this decline starting from lack of BTS & offscreen promotions, then lack of lead IVs and any acknowledgement of the fan hype, followed by now even onscreen is impacted so much so that we're grateful to get a well executed Sairat scene. I've never cared much for offscreen stuff as long as onscreen isn't impacted but things have become just too glaringly obvious that something somewhere is definitely wrong. All this is bringing down Sairat hype, so one can't help but assume all these assumptions to be true as they make the most sense. I've a friend who watches PH's other show on Rangu channel and that show despite being in drama genre w/ ML being married in real life has much more romantic scenes than our romance genre show. So even if I want to go ahead and blame the PH, the question that arises is why would PH have issues with televising romance on their one show but not on the other, until and unless the actors themselves are not comfortable to carry out such scenes? For people who question if it's FL who could be uncomfortable instead of the ML, all I'd say is the way it's only the FL who's done any offscreen promotion for the jodi in the last couple of months whereas ML and his fianceé have been busy giving IVs while not only sidelining the FL but also bad-mouthing her ckt and defending the negative lead in their IVs, it's pretty obvious for people who've been following the show for sometime, where the bias lies if at all it actually exists.
People do get offended if one points out what seems pretty obvious at this point but the truth is if we as fans don't provide constructive feedback and demand for better viewing experience, the makers will keep on taking things for granted with TRPs already being in their favor. I'm more active on Twitter and I've seen now even padosi FDs making fun of the show for lack of plot progression and socially distant romance. What we're all failing to acknowledge is that all it'll take is one better prime time show to dethrone Ghum from its TRP leader slot and then it'll be very difficult for them to bring TRPs back up. Sitara has known to be ruthless in the past with low TRP shows so much so that the online viewership & hype won't make a difference to them, with the most recent example being SAAKK. With a bunch new shows being launched at 8:00PM slot in the coming weeks, it's high time cast and crew pull up their socks because there's been enough crap served in the last 100 episodes for them to make it easy for viewers to switch the show.
Anupamaa
